Author: Doc
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Snippet Thursday
From The Dent in the Universe: Walrus hadn’t been home since Friday morning. His eyes were tinged with red, and his hand never strayed far from his double-caff RageCola. He and Workshop 3 smelled earthy. Even the ever-present perfume of fabric softener couldn’t mask the essence of overworked Walrus. But he was happy, drunk with…
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So long Star Trek, It’s been Nice.
I first watched Star Trek (now called The Original Series – TOS) with my father. He let me stay up to watch it. I was eight in 1966. We didn’t have a color TV then, so the crew’s yellow, red, and blue costumes and all the colorful blinking lights were lost on us. All those…
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Wheee! Strip Mining the moon!
For thousands of years young lovers looked up and found romance beneath the full moon. Now they’ll have to make do with the sarred, skid-marked face of the man in the moon staring back. enshittification on a planetray scale. Whee.
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So uh…
Wouldn’t that make Trump the Antichist? Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”
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A Fresh Look
It’s been nearly five years since I last refreshed my website. Hell, it’s been a year since my last blog post before my Interstellar review. As you can see with your own eyes, the design of this thing is much changed. Or, maybe you never saw the old place. Well, trust me. It’s a change.…
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Interstellar: Beautiful lunacy
Lunacy – from Late Latin lunaticus “moon-struck,” from Latin luna “moon” The yearning to reach the stars runs deep in Baby Boomers like myself. We grew up with the deep, ingrained, cultural mythos that we were headed for a moon base by the end of the 1970s and, after that the planets. Beyond that, the stars. But then the…